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(No Model.)

D. L. WILGOX.

TOY SPRING GUN.

Patented Sept. 15, 1885.

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E mm o y a. w .n I H N NITE STATES DANIEL L. WILOOX, OF PAWTUOKET, RHODE ISLAND, A SSIGNOR rIO THE D. L. WILOOX MANUFACTURING COMPANY.

TOY SPRING-GUN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,366, dated September 15, 1885.

Application filed July 9, 1835. (No model.) i

To all whom iff/'may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL L. WILcoX, of Pawtucket, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented new and useful Improvements in Toy Spring-Guns, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of toy spring-guns adapted to throw an arrow, torpedo, or other projectile by means of a proto jector traveling in a groove, and a contractile rubber spring secured to said projector and the body of the gun.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure l is a perspective View of a toy springgun embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view ofthe same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section. Fig. 4 is a view of the yoke L removed.

A is the stock or body, and a the longitudinal groove in the upper side thereof, in which lies the projector or driver B, provided on its under side with a shoulder or catch, b, adapted to be engaged by a catch, C, on that portion of the trigger O (pivoted at O in the stock) which extends up through the body into said groove.

D is an elastic cord passing through the projector B, and with its ends secured to the oppositev looped or hooked ends, e, of a yoke, E, which yoke lies in the horizontal groove F, made in the muzzle end of the stock, or in either of the horizontal grooves H, made in the under side thereof. The elastic cord, in passing from the projector tothe yoke E, passes down under the looped or hooked ends l of the oscillatory yoke L, which lies in one of the grooves, K, made in the under side of the stock. Both the grooves H H are preferably cut so as to incline rearward, as shown.

The trigger C is held by the spring N normally in the position shown-i. e., so that its catch C will project slightly up into the pulled, allows the projector to iiy forward into the position shown in Fig. 1,'and propel the projectile P. When the yoke L lies in the foremost groove K and the yoke E in the muzzle-groove F, as shown in Fig. l, consid- 5 5 erable power is required to draw the projector back to the catch O, and it is in order to render the device adjustable to the strength of different persons and persons of different ages that I have provided the grooves H and 6o the two rear grooves K, it being apparent that if the yoke E be slipped into the hindmost groove H and the yoke L into the hindmost groove K, as shown in Fig. 3, the cord D and the projector B will be so near the catch C that but little power, comparatively, will be required to pull it back' so as to engage With said catch.

The oscillatory yoke L operates as a yielding stop, and hence saves materially the Wear 7o and tear of the elastic cord D.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a toy spring-gun provided with a longitudinal groove, a projector adapted to travel therein, and an elastic cord or contractile spring for propelling said projector, a stock the barrel portion of which is provided with two or more transverse grooves upon 8o its under side for the purpose of enabling said cord or spring and projector to be placed at different distances from the trigger, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In a toy spring-gun, the stock A, provided with the muzzle-groove F, the set of transverse grooves H in the forward portion of the under side of said stock, and the set of grooves K in the under side of said stock, at

the rear of said grooves H, in combination 9o of the oscillatory yoke L, lying in one of said rco grooves K, and catching or hooking over the trigger C, provided with the catch C,the 1o said cord orspring, substantially as and for projector B, provided with the catch b and the purpose described. chamber B, the elastic cord D, and yokes EL, 4. The hereinbefore-described improved toy substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

Spring-gun, consistino essentially of the stock .v

A, provided with tha-e7 longitudiiiai groove a DANIEL L' WILCOX in the upper side of the stock, the muzzle- I Witnesses:

groove F, and the forward grooves, H, and HENRY W. WILLIAMS,

rear grooves,K,in the under side of sid stock, J. M. HARTNETT. 

